Art and Contemporaneity [Paperback]

Art is often said to be timeless, but specific works of art always take place within time and maintain a dynamic balance between their conditions of production and reception.
           
Art and Contemporaneityfeatures contributions from leading scholars, including Alain Badiou and Alexander García Düttmann, who bring theories of aesthetic philosophy to bear on one of the most crucial questions about contemporary art: how do works of art come to exist within and in relation to time? A specific temporality of an artwork emerges from the material and political conditions of its production. But works of art also forge new relationships to time in their reception, which are continually superimposed upon layers of history. With a broad range of perspectives,Art and Contemporaneityoffers a sustained reflection on the relationship between art and time, and it will appeal to those interested in both the theory and practice of contemporary art.

Preface

 

Alexander García Düttman

For and Against the Contemporary
An Examination

 

No, nobody could ever call me his contemporary.

 

What is Contemporaneity in Theater? Atomism versus Atavism

 

We Are All Hot Girls in a Mental Asylum
The Hollywood Left and Contemporary Democracy

 

Fire walk with me
Canetti's Auto-da-Fé

 

The Urinal and The Syncope

 

The Exhaustion of the Critical Form as Aesthetic Value

 

Benjamin and Adorno on Ar